Gerald Alan Freedman (June 25, 1927 – March 17, 2020) was an American theatre director, librettist, and lyricist, and a college dean.
[2][6] He began his career as assistant director of such projects as Bells Are Ringing, West Side Story, and Gypsy.
Additional Broadway credits include the 1964 and 1980 revivals of West Side Story, The Incomparable Max (1971), Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), the 1975 and 1976 productions of The Robber Bridegroom, both of which garnered him Drama Desk Award nominations as Outstanding Director of a Musical, The Grand Tour (1979) with Joel Grey, and The School for Scandal (1995) with Tony Randall.
[1] He was a member of the Kennedy Center New Play Committee and the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.
[1] He died on March 17, 2020, at his home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina of kidney failure.